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Instagram's Threads feels like Twitter's early days while offering an insta-network on infrastructure that should avoid bugs and outages plaguing smaller rivals (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) 06-07-2023

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Instagram’s Threads feels like Twitter’s early days while offering an insta-network on infrastructure that should avoid bugs and outages plaguing smaller rivals  —  Launch of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as a rival to Elon Musk’s platform sparks excited online chatter  —  It feels like 2006 all over again. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP (Max Tani/Semafor) 06-07-2023

Max Tani / Semafor: Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets” and other IP  —  Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition and will decide by November 15, 2023, whether to clear the deal (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) 06-07-2023

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition and will decide by November 15, 2023, whether to clear the deal  —  Amazon’s (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O) may reduce competition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about rogue AI and those illuminating harms is ahistorical and obscures research, journalism, and activism (Emily M. Bender) 06-07-2023

Emily M. Bender: Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about rogue AI and those illuminating harms is ahistorical and obscures research, journalism, and activism  —  In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Tom Brady's crypto ambitions, like being an FTX “ambassador”, collided with reality, part of the humiliating reckoning facing crypto embracing celebrities (New York Times) 06-07-2023

New York Times: How Tom Brady’s crypto ambitions, like being an FTX “ambassador”, collided with reality, part of the humiliating reckoning facing crypto embracing celebrities  —  The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash.  Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped. Lees verder op Tech Meme